Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

An 11-year-old girl is giving thanks to her Maryland medical team after surgery to repair a hole in her heart. Ryleigh Freitag had many Valentine's cards to hand out this year — but not to her ...

More than two decades ago, doctors told my mother, Barb Barnes, that she needed open-heart surgery. While the news was difficult to hear, it wasn't shocking. She'd gone from running up and down ...